Below Quotes
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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More Below Quotes
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Gave the lustre of midday to objects below, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer.
Clement Moore— The Night Before Christmas (1822)
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...
John Lennon— "Imagine" (1971)
His form was of the manliest beauty,His heart was kind and soft;Faithful below he did his duty,But now he ’s gone aloft.
charles dibdin— Tom Bowling (c. 1788).
The view we enjoyed from the summit [of Mount Rainier] could hardly be surpassed in sublimity and grandeur; but one feels far from home so high in the sky, so much so that one is inclined to guess that, apart from the acquisition of knowledge and the exhilaration of climbing, more pleasure is to be found at the foot of the mountains than on their tops. Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below.
john muir— "Washington and the Puget Sound" in Picturesque California (1888-1890); reprinted in Steep Trails (1918), chapter 20
'Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below, Half frantic in its joyousness, And wild in eager flow. The earth is dried and parched with heat, And it hath long'd to be Released from out the selfish cloud, To cool the thirsty tree.
— Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Water.
The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below!
thomas campbell— Part III, stanza 5.
From every place below the skiesThe grateful song, the fervent prayer,—The incense of the heart, —may riseTo heaven, and find acceptance there.
john pierpont— Every Place a Temple, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "This is that incense of the heart / Whose fragrance smells to heaven" Nathaniel Cotton, The Fireside, stanza 11.
We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealized possibilities, a challenge to the spirit of exploration.
— Julian Huxley, "Transhumanism" in New Bottles for New Wine (1957) p. 13 - 17
below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
Matthew Arnold— "St. Paul and Protestantism" (1870).
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
john milton— Line 159. (Il Penseroso (1631))
Home and heaven are not so far separated as we sometimes think. Nay, they are not separated at all, for they are both in the same great building. Home is the lower story, and is located down here on the ground floor; heaven is above stairs, in the second and third stories; and, as one after another the family is called to come up higher, that which seemed to be such a strange place begins to wear a familiar aspect; and, when at last not one is left below, the home is transferred to heaven, and heaven is home.
— Alexander Dickson, p. 326. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado.
— Henry Howarth Bashford (1880-1961), English physician and writer. London, from Romances (1917).
As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado.
— Henry Bashford, Romances.
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
john mccrae— Col. John McCrae, In Flander's Fields (We shall not Sleep).
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 3, line 97
She sang how in his ship a man would go From Belem to avenge the cruel shame. The weight it bears the ocean shall not know, That great Pacheco who shall justly claim Of Portuguese Achilles' glorious name; When he embarks, the surging waves his weight Shall feel, and all the vessel's beams and frame Shall groan oppressed beneath the burthen great, And in the water sink below its usual state.
— Translated by Robert Ffrench Duff, in The Lusiad of Camoens translated into English Spencerian verse (1880), p. 365
If there comes a little thaw, still the air is chill and raw. Here and there a patch of snow, dirtier than the ground below, dribbles down a marshy flood; ankle-deep you stick in mud in the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring."
— C. P. Cranch, A Spring Growl. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Edmund Waller— Edmund Waller, Divine Poems, Divine Love, Canto III, line 17.
Miles above the Earth we know, Fancy's rocket roars. below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light.
philip josé farmer— "Imagination" in America Sings (1949)
Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of chance below.
john dryden— 1697 Alexander's Feast, l.85-6.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
john steinbeck— Quote magazine (18 June 1961)
God, I love the "fine morality" of the wealthy and powerful. You'll spill tears over your own, in a heartbeat. And then never even look twice at people below you, whose very lives are ground under every day, day after day, year after year.
david weber— quote from W.E.B. Du Havel
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
aleister crowley— Ch LXXIII (Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929))
The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.
james russell lowell— To George William Curtis.
Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ode to Beauty
